AP Physics C

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AP. ®. Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism. Text: Serway, Raymond A., and John W. Jewett, Jr., ... →Application of Gauss's law to symmetric charge distributions.
AP® Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism Text: Serway, Raymond A., and John W. Jewett, Jr., Principles of Physics – A Calculus-based Text, 4th ed. Belmont, CA: Thomson Brooks/Cole, 2006. C6 – Curricular Requirement: Introductory differential and integral calculus is used throughout the course. Course evaluation: - Grade determination →Final Exam – 15% →Unit Exams – 42.5% →Daily Work – 42.5% - chapter assignments, quizzes - laboratory activities - formal lab report Unit assessments are composed of multiple choice and free response questions from AP exams. Assignments for each chapter/unit are completed using Quest (https://quest.cns.utexas.edu/). The laboratory component of this course is described in detail after the course outline.

Course outline Chapter 19 – Electric Forces and Electric Fields C1 – Curricular Requirement: Electrostatics - Instructional time: 3 weeks - Topics covered →Properties of electric charges →Insulators and conductors →Coulomb’s law →The electric field →The electric field due to continuous charge distributions →Electric field lines →Motion of a charged particle in a uniform electric field - Chapter 19 Quiz #1 →Electric flux →Gauss’s law →Application of Gauss’s law to symmetric charge distributions →Conductors in electrostatic equilibrium - Chapter 19 Quiz #2 - Chapter 19 Assessment Chapter 20 – Electric Potential and Capacitance C2 – Curricular Requirement: Conductors, capacitors, and dielectrics

- Instructional time: 3 weeks - Topics covered →Potential difference and electric potential →Equipotential surfaces →Electric potential and potential energy due to point charges →Obtaining electric field from electric potential →Electric potential due to continuous charge distributions →Electric potential of a charged conductor - Chapter 20 Quiz #1 →Capacitance →Combinations of capacitors →Energy stored in a charged capacitor →Capacitors with dielectrics - Chapter 20 Quiz #2 - Chapter 20 Assessment Chapter 21 – Current and Direct Current Circuits C3 – Curricular Requirement: Electric circuits - Instructional time: 3 weeks - Topics covered →Current and direct current circuits →Drift velocity →Sources and types of current →Behavior of resistors →Electric energy and power →Sources of emf - Chapter 21 Quiz #1 →Resistors in series →Resistors in parallel →Kirchhoff’s rules and simple DC circuits →RC circuits – charging a capacitor →RC circuits – discharging a capacitor - Chapter 21 Quiz #2 - Chapter 21 Assessment Chapter 22 – Magnetic Forces and Magnetic Fields C4 – Curricular Requirement: Magnetic fields - Instructional time: 3 weeks - Topics covered →Magnets →Magnetic fields →Magnetic force →Charged particles in a magnetic field →Magnetic force on a current-carrying conductor →Torque on a current loop in a uniform magnetic field - Chapter 22 Quiz #1

→The Biot-Savart law →Ampère’s law →Magnetic field of a solenoid →Magnetic domains - Chapter 22 Quiz #2 - Chapter 22 Assessment Chapter 23 – Faraday’s Law and Inductance & Chapter 24 – Electromagnetic Waves C5 – Curricular Requirement: Electromagnetism - Instructional time: 3 weeks - Topics covered →Faraday’s law of induction →Lenz’s law →Motional emf →Induced emfs and electric fields - Chapters 23 & 24 Quiz #1 →Self-inductance →RL circuits →Energy stored in a magnetic field →Maxwell’s equations - Gauss’s law - Gauss’s law for magnetism - Faraday’s law of induction - Ampère’s law (generalized form) - Lorentz force - Chapters 23 & 24 Quiz #2 - Chapters 23 & 24 Assessment AP Physics C Exams Relativity Unit →Instructional time: 1.5 weeks →Topics covered - Michelson-Morley experiment - Einstein’s principle of relativity - Consequences of special relativity - Relativistic momentum - Relativistic energy and the equivalence of mass and energy - General relativity Spring Semester Final Exam

Laboratory Activities The majority of the following laboratory activities are computer-based using PASCO materials. Activities are incorporated in the curriculum to provide students experience with and/or

understanding of the following as described in “Objectives for the AP® Physics Courses”: 1) experimental design; 2) observation and measurement of real phenomena; 3) data analysis; 4) error analysis; and 5) communication of results. During a regular 5-day week, students are in class for 265 minutes (53 minutes/day) and are engaged in hands-on activities for at least 60 minutes. Students are required to maintain a portfolio of all laboratory activities. Students have one formal lab write up over a major activity (60 minutes or longer) of their choosing. C7 – Curricular Requirement: The course utilizes guided inquiry and student-centered learning to foster the development of critical thinking skills. C8 – Curricular Requirement: The course includes a laboratory component comparable to a semester-long, college-level physics laboratory. Students spend a minimum of 20 percent of instructional time engaged in laboratory work. A hands-on laboratory component is required. Each student should complete a lab notebook or portfolio of lab reports. Electromagnetism - Charging by conduction and induction (30 minutes) →transfer charge between objects by conduction and induction - Static electricity (hands-on/45 minutes) →investigate basic examples of static electricity - Equipotential mapping (hands-on/60 minutes) →delineate an equipotential map and derive electric field lines - Capacitance and dielectrics (hands-on/60 minutes) →investigate the relationship between charge, voltage and capacitance for a parallel plate capacitor - Capacitors in series and in parallel (hands-on/60 minutes) →determine how capacitors behave in an RC circuit depending upon how the capacitors are combined - Ohm’s Law (hands-on/45 minutes) →investigate the relationship between resistance, current, and potential difference - Introduction to multimeters (hands-on/60 minutes) →understand and use multimeters to measure resistance, current, and potential difference - Resistors in series and in parallel (hands-on/75 minutes) →investigate the simple combination of resistors in series and in parallel - Resistance, voltage, and current in circuits (hands-on/100 minutes) →investigate the relationship between variables that contribute to the operation of an electric circuit - RC circuit (hands-on/60 minutes) →investigate the change in potential across a capacitor as it charges and determine the capacitive time constant - Electromagnets (hands-on/45 minutes) →investigate the properties of electromagnets and magnetic fields - Magnetic field of a solenoid (hands-on/60 minutes) →determine the magnetic field inside a solenoid and compare the magnetic field

to a theoretical value based on the current through the solenoid - Electromagnetic induction (hands-on/45 minutes) →investigate electromagnetic induction qualitatively and quantitatively - Transformers (hands-on/45 minutes) →investigate several of the factors influencing the operation of a transformer - LR circuit (hands-on/60 minutes) →investigate the relationship between the current through an inductor and its behavior in a DC circuit - Virtual electricity and magnetism (virtual/45 minutes) →use internet sites to better understand electromagnetic concepts